The husband made this quick picture from a visitor. It's not really in our garden, but it's sitting on top of a wall that divides the terraces of the houses next to us.

Some days later I was busy in one of our rooms upstairs in the company of our oldest cat who was guarding its territory from the windowsill. Suddenly I heard "chattering". When I looked I saw the cat staring out of the window, one paw held high. I went to the window just in time to see a beautiful heron on the edge of the pond in the garden behind ours before it flew away.